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intheflow

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13. Yeah, not the Revolutionary War, but the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #3)

Mon May 3, 2021, 11:41 AM

May 2021

Although it's true that many Revolutionary War/Founding Fathers really just wanted freedom from Britain so they could create and unilaterally rule their own private fiefdoms, known as plantations. So I guess... sort of like refighting the Revolutionary War, but really, much more about dividing the existing Union to again allow power over literal life and death for their workers (enslaved or not). This is Civil War, Part II.

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